I really want to support IRM hence have bought the ballast wagon and the bubbles. Will definitely buy the CIE ploughs.
Will be buying fert's, flats and anything else that comes along as long as it was around pre 1990. Will wait for the blue Tara's.
I am not overly worried about paint colour as 90% of wagons should be heavily weathered to be in any way accurate. The principle cause of the weathering in the pre graffiti era was dust from the cast iron break shoes. My memory of the Tara's is that if one or two wagons in the train was blue, that was it. Hence the reason that Inchicore decide to paint everything brown in the mid eighties. The only wagons that were kept in any way clean were the ammonia's. Even these got very dirty, but because of the inspection regime, they were washed at regular intervals.